This Miami parody features an actress in blackface and the audience 'loves it' 5/19/2018 Miami Herald: "A popular Spanish-language theater near Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood has been entertaining its audiences for months with a parody that would spur outrage in many other cities. One of the leading actors in the play performs in blackface.
The response from most of this audience: applause and laughter.
“It has been a hit and no one has complained ... on the contrary, she is one of the favorites," said Marisol Correa, who oversees the venue where the play is showing. “The character is typical of the Cuban theater, the negrito cubano, but the person is never discriminated.”"

US Christianity in the Service
of Slavery: Far Right Churches. 3/14/2017.
The current far right churches in the US are the spiritual descendants of
Southern churches who formed the backbone of the pro-slavery propaganda
machine. They have taken over a large portion of Trump's operations. Mike
Pompeo is a dominionist (see
“This Evil Is All Around Us” 1/12/2017 Slate) who
firmly believes in crusades. That did not work out too well for the US in
Irak or in Viet Nam.

In Cuba, There Isn’t a Movement for Black Thought, or Black Pride. It Doesn’t Exist. 2/19/2018 Pulitzer Center: “In Cuba, there isn’t a movement for Black thought. It doesn’t exist,” Alcántara said. He, along with other Cubans of color, acknowledge that the lack of Black pride in Cuba is related to Cuba’s cultural structure of associating Blackness with something that is ugly and undesirable. [Many half truths here, the author,
whose name is Edo from Benin, Nigeria, needs to perfect her reporting skills and interview more people! "Alcántara" (actually his maternal name and not one you would normally use) works with US paid dissidents and is hardly a major source on Black culture in Cuba.
She might want to seek out people who have Olokun, which is the main
orisha in Benin, perhaps they can set her straight.]

How the Republicans Helped Trump Steal the Election 1/25/2018 Truth
Out: "Whose votes get thrown in the ballot dumpster? According to the US
Civil Rights Commission, the chance your vote will be disqualified is
900 percent higher if you're Black than if you're white. Do the math.
Trump would have lost Ohio, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania ... the list goes on ... if not for the "spoilage" game and
blocking legit voters from the polls."

Trump appointed
Philip Seth Goldberg as head of the US
Embassy in Cuba. Expelled from Bolivia for supporting a white separatist
movement. Expulsado de
Bolivia por apoyar un movimiento separatista blanco.
12/6/2017

What Happened Thursday with the JFK Records? 10/26/2017 Mary
Ferrell Foundation: "Most news reports correctly noted the release of
about 2800 documents, but added that only a few were held back, in
some cases saying "300 documents" remain withheld (see CNN, and
Washington Post for example). They are off by a factor of 100. In
fact, tens of thousands of documents, possibly as many as 30,000,
remain sealed at the National Archives." See our
JFK Assassination coverage

Fears of Black Political Activism in Cuba and Beyond, 1912–2017 6/15/2017 The
Weekly Challenger: By Devyn Spence Benson - "When I arrived in Havana on April 6, 2013, a number of
people I talked to (all well-educated revolutionaries) immediately
compared Zurbano’s public critique to the formation of the PIC in 1908.
Incredibly, these Cubans suggested that Zurbano’s article meant that he
wanted to start his own black political party! That was not and is still
not the case, but repeatedly linking Zurbano to the PIC illustrates how
many Cubans still fear that any critique of the revolution by a black
Cuban is a radical position that threatens national unity and is thus a
cause for alarm."

I'm with AUDREY 4/26/2017 Folio Weekly, Jacksonville: "Eventually, the counternarrative emerged: Artiles was using a variation on the ethnic slur, and his claim was that it wasn’t racial, it’s just how people talk in Hialeah."

Havana's small business boom exposes a stark racial divide
4/5/2017 PRI: "Harvard’s Alejandro de la Fuente said the lack of black
business owners is leading to a stark economic divide between white
and black Cubans, something the socialist government worked hard to
erase. He thinks the Cuban government should step in. “You could
concentrate development funds in some of the poorest areas of the city
so residents in those areas could use public funds to launch their own
businesses,” de la Fuente said. He said that small business owners
also need to focus on hiring Afro Cubans. “You could look at the
possibility of establishing labor policies that make sure that the
emergent private sector actually is open to and forced to incorporate
and hire people of African descent.”

The State of Black Broward: Starting the Conversation 3/9/2017 West
Side Gazette: "Last week: “The dismal statistics presented at the
recent “State of Black Broward” conference: only eight of the county’s
90 judges are Black; Black motorists are stopped 1.9 times more than
whites for seat belt violations; median household income is $74,000
for whites and $43,000 for Blacks; the unemployment rate last year was
4.4 percent but nine percent for Blacks; and, of the more than 800
firefighters in Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire-Rescue, only 54 are
Black. Combined with recent studies showing racial disparities in
school suspensions and sentencing, there is but one conclusion:
Broward has a race problem,” stated Clarence V. McKee, president,
McKee Communications in an op-ed in the South Florida 100- Sun
Sentinel Sunday March 5, 2017." See our
Black Florida page. Broward County covers the area north of Miami,
including Ft Lauderdale.

Kaspersky "heapgrd" DLL Inject 3/7/2017 WikiLeaks: Kaspersky
is widely used in Cuba. This hacking tool described in WikiLeak's
searchable and very extensive collection of CIA tools released today
should be easy to mitigate.

Congressmen: the advance of the rapprochement “is inevitable”
2/24/2017 Vistar: "Cochran, meanwhile, affirmed that “there are
openings, and winning implies taking risks.” Speaking of the
expectations regarding Trump, he joked saying that “some say that we
have a spontaneous president…. There will be active debates in
Congress,” he forecasted."

Trump’s New Cuba Negotiator Fought For Stronger Cuba Ties 1/24/2017 BuzzFeed: "Until
December, Jason Greenblatt served as a senior vice president at the
Trump Organization and acted as the corporation’s chief legal officer.
He was sworn in on Sunday as the White House’s “special representative
for international negotiations.” Among that remit will be, according
to CNN at the time the position was announced, “working on
Israel-Palestinian peace process, the American relationship with Cuba
and trade agreements.”

Mexico's Color Line and the Cultural Imperialism of Light-Skin Preference 5/26/2018 Truth
Out: "I thought the Mexican reality would have been opposite of the United
States'. Bewildered, when I inquired, even the Mexican revolutionaries
explained that racism was a US problem: a product of its history, not
Mexico's. Rather, Mexico was afflicted with a deep-seated classism, not
racism, they said."

Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote 4/23/2018 Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences: "Support for Donald J. Trump in the
2016 election was widely attributed to citizens who were “left behind”
economically. These claims were based on the strong cross-sectional
relationship between Trump support and lacking a college education. Using
a representative panel from 2012 to 2016, I find that change in financial
wellbeing had little impact on candidate preference. Instead, changing
preferences were related to changes in the party’s positions on issues
related to American global dominance and the rise of a majority–minority
America: issues that threaten white Americans’ sense of dominant group
status." See our What motivates Trump voters? White
supremacy turns out to be the main motivation. What is derogatorily called
"Identity politics" matters.

The Assassination of Marielle Franco and the Dawn of Brazil's New Civil
Rights Movement 3/19/2018 OkayAfrica: "Brazil, Latin America's most
populous country, is one that has long hidden its apartheid behind the
myth of a racial democracy. They prefer to point to classism instead of
racism as the cause for the huge disparity in wealth and opportunities
between Whites and Blacks. Meanwhile nearly 70 percent of those in extreme
poverty in this nation of 200 million are Afro-Brazilian."

Is Honduras’s ruling party planning to rig an election? 11/25/2017 Economist: "By The Economist’s count, the session’s leader advocates at least five vote-rigging methods, couching them in banal terms such as “strategy” and “technique” and interspersing them with legitimate advice. The first, and the key to all the others, is for National Party representatives to obtain poll-workers’ credentials from smaller parties. This would help them outvote their rivals at the polling stations in case of disputes."

U.S. sanctions damage Cuban entrepreneurs 11/13/2017 On Cuba: "Cuban and U.S. analysts are of the opinion that their further effects (since they have already considerably affected the quality of bilateral relations) will damage the Cuban economy, in the state-run sector as well as the non-state."

Report: White-Controlled Castro Regime Systematically Oppressing Black
Cubans 10/31/2017 Breitbart: "The Spain-based Diario de
Cuba details the accusations in “Denial, Exclusion, and Repression,” a
report by the Citizens’ Committee for Racial Integration (CIR), a
dissident group dedicated to exposing the oppression of racial minorities
under communism in Cuba." [What this white
supremacist site fails to mention is that the CIR and Diario de Cuba are
funded by NED and the Miami Plantocracy. Communism has very little to do
with racism in Cuba, which existed long before 1959 and is much more
influenced by
French Republican ideals.]

A Matter of Skin 6/23/2016 Zum: by Lorna Roth - "It is timely to
argue for a new way of understanding the visual industries in relation to
a form of racial and cultural equity that doesn’t revolve around
statistics, legislation, and access to institutions. Rather, by directly
inscribing an algorithmic vision of full-spectrum flesh-tone equity into
the various technological apparatuses of visual media, an alternative set
of embedded skin colour norms could trigger more equitable representations
of success, beauty, and belonging – although there are never any
guarantees of a positive outcome. Diversity, after all, does not equal
power."

Trump and the Russian Mafiya 2017
Dutch TV is on it. Trump's decades long money laundering and financial
crimes are how the Deep State will get rid of him.

Racism
and Racial Divides in Venezuela 1/21/2004 Venezuela Analysis: "The
correspondence between skin color and class membership in Venezuela is
quite stunning at times. To confirm this observation, all one has to do is
compare middle to upper class neighborhoods, where predominantly lighter
colored folks live, with the barrios, which are clearly predominantly
inhabited by darker skinned Venezuelans." Still true today when the upper
class is driving the violent protests which would never be tolerated in
the US, see
AfroVenezuela.

The Case of
Journalist Fernando Ravsberg 3/7/2017 Havana Times: by Esteban
Morales Domínguez - "If at the end of the day I discover that Ravsberg is
working for the enemy, maybe I’ll criticize myself, because I was treated
in the same way and nobody criticized themselves when they discovered that
it had all been a mistake."

Analyzing the US Election Returns
for 2016: What motivates Trump voters?
2/17 "Progressives have a blind spot when it comes to race. They do.
Conservatives and Republicans don’t have a blind spot when it comes to
race. They understand the power of race and they use it. It is
mind-boggling to me how tough it is for progressives to have a
conversation about race without them wanting to make it a conversation
about class and economics."

Obama Administration Ends Refugee Policy That Favored Cubans
1/12/2017 NPR: "Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, released a statement saying the
existing policy needed to be revamped, not ended. In particular, he said
he wanted Donald Trump to reverse the cancellation of the medical
professional program when he becomes president next week. Rubio added
that he had spoken with Vice President-elect Mike Pence this evening and
was "heartened by the fact that in a week we will have a new
administration committed to discarding the failed Cuba policy of the
last two years."